"Lindsay I need you to think for a second." Mac said.
"Okay."
"Did the package have the post office stamp on it?" Mac asked.
"Yes." Lindsay replied.
"Don, Danny why don't you take her to one of the café's down the street and get her something to help her warm up."
"My purse is inside." Lindsay said.
"Don't worry I've got money." Flack told her.
"Come on Montana, let's go and get you some tea." Danny said.
"You really think that someone sent her a bomb?" Stella asked Mac.
"The bomb squad say it's a bomb, they're making sure it's defused right now."
"Why would anyone send Lindsay a bomb?" Hawkes asked. "She wouldn't hurt anyone."
"I don't know. But we need to call the FBI."
"It got sent through the mail so it's a federal case." Stella connected the dots.
"Exactly."
Mac went to call the FBI, while Stella and Hawkes stood in the middle of the street looking up at their building.
"Who sends a bomb through the mail that starts smoking first?" Hawkes asked.
"Someone who didn't want to kill her." Stella guessed. "It would give her a warning."
"True."
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Flack came back and gave Lindsay a cup of hot tea with sugar in it.
"Here drink this."
"Thanks." Lindsay wrapped her hands around the cup grateful for the heat. Despite being wrapped in Flack's coat and inside she was still freezing.
"Are you okay?" Danny asked.
"You try having to strip off and take a cold decontamination shower in 40 degree weather and then only being a given a jumpsuit to put on and having stand around with wet hair." Lindsay snapped. "Sorry, I'm so cold."
"It's okay." Danny told her.
"Who'd want to send me a bomb?" Lindsay asked.
"We don't know it was a bomb." Flack pointed out.
"It was bomb or what's the technical term an 'improvised explosive device'."
"It would have started smoking if they wanted you to blow up." Flack suggested.
"Let's not discuss blowing things up." Danny said glaring at Flack.
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"All clear." The bomb squad announced as they exited the building.
"What have we got?" Mac walked over.
"There was trigger which was supposed to set it off when it was opened. The smoke was an accidental by product of a loose wire." He explained to Mac. "It was quick thinking dropping it in water; it stopped it exploding by short circuiting it."
"I think it was more a gut reaction to the smoke than a thought out plan." Mac stated.
"Whoever opened it was very lucky."
"It was sent through the mail." Mac told him.
"It was unstable they're lucky it didn't go off before. You need to call the Feds."
"They're on their way."
"You need to tape off ballistics and anything that came into contact with the package."
"Detective Monroe left the brown paper the package was wrapped up in in her office."
"Close that off too."
"She's already been through decontamination." Mac added.
"Then you should be okay."
TBC